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Fantastic Beasts and How They Kill You - Medievalists.net Stories of incredible and deadly beasts filtered back home in travel writing, legends, and bestiaries to amuse and astound readers who might never see these animals for themselves.

Fantastic Beasts and How They Kill You www.medievalists.net/2022/10/fant... #Medieval

Section of Journey to the West in Chinese, when Xuanzang is congratulated

Congratulations scene at end of the anime, Neon Genesis Evangelion

Strongly same vibes

In this Chinese #painting, a monkey pokes at a beehive perched precariously on a cliff branch, while three others wait, poised to help as bees swirl in chaos. It’s more than mischief. It's metaphor.
In folk tradition, the words for “monkey” (猴) and “bee” (蜂) echo the sounds of 1/2

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😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

Stephen Mulhall · Self-Interpreting Animals New linguistic articulations can reconfigure the way we make sense of our own feelings, thoughts and responses – our...

‘According to the philosophical account Taylor draws on, the articulations of poetry are as fully capable of disclosing the existential significance of human life as the words of philosophers or saints.’

Stephen Mulhall on Charles Taylor’s ‘Cosmic Connections’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

In Jiangnan’s silk-rich valleys, silkworm cats (蚕猫) guard more than just cocoons. They protect a legacy.
Passed down through generations, these feline guardians keep rodents at bay, ensuring the safety of precious silkworm seeds. But their role isn’t just practical; 1/2
#caturday

A getty image by Mike Powles of a chameleon that is mall enough to sit on someone's thumb, its tail is curling ever so slightly

another getty image, this time by Alexis Rosenfeld, of another stump-tailed chameleon, this one small enough to sit comfortably on the tip of someone's thumb. Its mouth is slightly open, and its little toes are so small it is making me want to die a little bit.

BREAKING: I've just learned that there are teeny-tiny chameleons called stumped-tailed chameleons and they look like this AND I CANNOT HANDLE IT

Emperor Huizong of the Song (1082–1135) may have faltered as a ruler, but his artistry was unmatched. In his paintings, cats often stalk butterflies, a scene both tender and symbolic.
The word for cat (māo) echoes mào (耄), meaning old age, while butterfly (dié) sounds like dié (耋), 1/2

YouTube video by Alex Boucher The Art of Cat Acting

This is a fantastic video about cat acting: youtu.be/AycqebrmBkM?...

A “Music for 18 Musicians”-type piece, but made up of interlocking recordings of players in handshake lines saying “good game, good game, good game, good game…”

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In this piece on "genre borrowing" I study why netizens use Sima Qian's "arrayed biography" (列传) form to write biographies of Li Wenliang & how the narrative devices of this ancient genre align with the logic of digital culture. Open access! @asc.upenn.edu journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Idk how Harvard Art Museums got hold of him bc I think he’s supposed to be my pet??

Image of a “Tomb Figurine in the Form of an Auspicious Aquatic Creature in the Form of a Human-Headed Fish” and its ID number from the Harvard Art Museums website

Close up of face of tomb figurine of human-headed fish

…..a tomb figurine in the form of an auspicious aquatic creature in the form of a human-headed fish? 🥹 I love him so much??

Colloque – Comparaison(s) est-asiatiques – Humains et non-humains 17 & 18 octobre 2025 (ENS Lyon) OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :Laurent Chircop-Reyes (5 octobre 2025). Colloque – Comparaison(s) est-asiatiques – Humains et non-humains 17 & 18 octobre 2025 (ENS ...

Colloque – Comparaison(s) est-asiatiques – Humains et non-humains 17 & 18 octobre 2025 (ENS Lyon) afec.hypotheses.org/11317

publication day for my *Documents géographiques de Dunhuang*, a social and cultural history of geographical knowledge, and probably one of the only medieval history books published in France during the ephemeral Lecornu government, which you can freely download here: books.openedition.org/cdf/20307

GOOD BOY Review: Indy the Dog Gives the Performance of the Year A haunted house story from the point of view of a loyal dog, Ben Leonberg's film delivers an uncannily great performance from its canine lead actor.

A haunted house story from the point of view of a loyal dog, Ben Leonberg's film delivers an uncannily great performance from its canine lead actor.

My favorite actors are not human

A tiny orange toad with brownish spots on their side! They have huge black eyes!

Our friend the Serra Do Araçatuba Flea Toad is another tiny from southern Brazil! They are less than half an inch long when fully grown! They are a member of a genus of toads known as Saddleback Toads, named after a saddle shaped bony patch covering their spine! (photo by Luiz F. Ribeiro)

Imagine the Last Supper reimagined in a Ming Dynasty courtyard: Christ at the center, not in Jerusalem, but beneath carved wooden beams and fluttering lucky clouds.
In this early 20th-century painting, Peter wears a flowing blue hanfu, seated on a three-legged stool beside lotus blooms rising 1/2

Happy to announce the launch of the Digital Library of #ChineseClassics! A comprehensive #collection of over 500 texts, being the result of 20 years of research and the work of 500 scholars.

Coming (quite) soon
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CfP for an exciting animal panel at the upcoming Association of Art History Conference (University of Cambridge, 8-10 April 2026). A great opportunity for Chinese animal / art scholars! 🎨🐝🐸

Dear friends,
As have become a habit, I mark each #autumnequinox by sharing a small poem by Xin Qiji. I also start my translation cycle of Chinese and Japanese poems and prose that mark the twenty-four lunisolar micro-seasons. Translation notes blogged here:
#everynightapoem

In early 2025, beaver activity in the Brdy Protected Landscape Area, Czech Republic, contributed to the restoration of a wetland ecosystem. A family of beavers constructed a series of dams that coincidentally accomplished environmental goals of the Czech government, which had delayed its proposed project since 2018 for bureaucratic and financial reasons. The beaver-built dams saved the Czech government approximately US$1.2 million,

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

historical marker in Owensboro, Kentucky titled "tribute to a dog". shown with a dog in front of it

Writing history aficionados -- 注意！ Detailed analyses of Tang brushes, paper & ink from Murong Zhi's tomb: doi:10.1038/s40494-025-01989.
Even if one doesn’t have to go along with the “deep Sinicization of the Tuyuhun royal family” bit in the discussion, a fascinating paper.

Scientists confirm discovery of a new otter species New scientific discovery: DNA reveals that the neotropical otter is not one, but two distinct species in Latin America.

New Otter just dropped.

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Less I think?

“Confucius was terrorized by the bouncers. ‘Wuhu!’ he exclaimed. ‘How America’s virtue has declined! If even this may be called a ‘gentleman’s club,’ what might *not* be called a ‘gentleman’s club?’”